Showing solidarity when political allies make mistakes...

A political ally extremely poorly defends a policy you agree on. Do you:

1. Stay completely quiet out of political solidarity.
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2. Correct or add to the political compatriot's posted argument in hopes it will strenghten it.
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3. Stay quiet. Prepare for the other side's attack against the poorly reasoned argument by referencing poor arguments from the other side.
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4. Nothing. I don't accept the premise that someone else's poor defense or advocacy of my own beliefs, amount to my beliefs being untruthful.
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46%
 
Total votes: 13

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Showing solidarity when political allies make mistakes...

Post by BjornP » Tue Jul 11, 2017 4:44 am

Just a little attempt at insight into how we behave socially when debating politics, no matter our political standpoints. It's especially the question of staying silent when someone who you know shares your ideals, but who either mixes them with some bullshit you don't feel is connected, or when they arrive at the same conclusions you do, but you know that their rationale for getting there do not hold up. How great is the social taboo to stay silent when a political "ally" makes a mistake in reasoning, a mistake that you can be sure will get picked up by the oppose side of the discussion?
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Re: Showing solidarity when political allies make mistakes...

Post by TheReal_ND » Tue Jul 11, 2017 5:12 am

PURITY SPIRAL THE PLATFORM INTO THE GROUND

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Re: Showing solidarity when political allies make mistakes...

Post by Speaker to Animals » Tue Jul 11, 2017 7:54 am

Purity spiraling is a blast.

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Re: Showing solidarity when political allies make mistakes...

Post by BjornP » Tue Jul 11, 2017 8:54 am

Hey, just because I happen to be more virtuous than you two, doesn't mean it's not a good question. :pray: :ugeek:
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Re: Showing solidarity when political allies make mistakes...

Post by TheReal_ND » Tue Jul 11, 2017 8:59 am

No true Scotsman. Red herring!

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Re: Showing solidarity when political allies make mistakes...

Post by Speaker to Animals » Tue Jul 11, 2017 9:04 am

If Bjorn were more clever, he might tackle nukedog with racial purity spiraling.. :whistle:

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Re: Showing solidarity when political allies make mistakes...

Post by BjornP » Tue Jul 11, 2017 9:15 am

Well, I am so full-blooded Nordic that the most foreign I get, is Swedish....

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..and if I care to grow a beard, it's red, like mighty Thor's himself. :pray:
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Re: Showing solidarity when political allies make mistakes...

Post by Speaker to Animals » Tue Jul 11, 2017 9:35 am

No, you fucked it up. First you admitted to being Swedish, which apparently is like three degrees from being a Jew, and then you admitted to being a red-head. The only other disqualification you neglected was being left-handed. A left-handed, ginger Swede is probably not trustworthy.

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Re: Showing solidarity when political allies make mistakes...

Post by BjornP » Tue Jul 11, 2017 9:47 am

Those ancestors were late 17th century Swedes. Pre-SJW Swedes. Hey, and over there in your racial Mongrel-stan, being red-head may be weird and unnatural, but here... true native hair color, man. You're just envious at our ethnic homogenity, I can tell.

And I am right-handed. At least you're right about left-handed people. It's no coincidence, I'm sure, that the Latin word for left is "sinister". :evil:

*dexterious purity spiralling commencing*

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Re: Showing solidarity when political allies make mistakes...

Post by TheReal_ND » Tue Jul 11, 2017 9:57 am

Behind every swede is a jew